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A Fistful of Pasta mix

February 19, 2010
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a spaghetti western mix, with loud gunfire (!) and wild west disco (?) featuring tracks from Ennio Morricone, The Stallions, Arthur Baker, KZA, Phoreski, COMBI, Hot Toddy and many more..

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All About The Papers (afrodesia edit)

January 10, 2010
reel to reel

an exclusive re-rub straight out the Windy City from our disco-boogie-house loving brother afrodesia. Get it free here 320Kbps.

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Blank Tapes NYC bonus mix

January 5, 2010
Blank Tapes

Bill Brewster provides us with a mix to celebrate the first ever album retrospective of one of New York’s most revered of all producers, Bob Blank.

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Motown Soul & Disco Selections II

July 30, 2009
motown

As promised, here’s Part II consisting of a few more of my favourite soul & disco moments from Motown.

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Motown Soul & Disco Selections

July 13, 2009
hitsville

Part I of just some of my favourite soul & disco moments from Motown, the label celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this year.

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A Salute to the Men of Vauxhall

July 5, 2009
Mark7 front cover

oki-ni.com has just announced an exclusive collaboration with renowned record collector, Mark Seven.

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Max’s Mystery mix

June 30, 2009
Juke Box

For your listening pleasure, a mystery mix i recorded for Purple-radio.

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Funkatarium at The Prince, Brixton – 28th March

March 26, 2009

Easy all – we’re all set to touch down at the Prince in Brixton this Saturday night for Funkaterium, a night hosted by Purple Radio head honcho Mr Black.  Mega excitement.  Come and say hello.
Mr B has kindly provided a mix for us to post, so get on the download – here’s the tracklisting:
Mr Black [...]

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Ray Charles – Compared To What

March 16, 2009

Released on Atlantic Records, a Ray Charles rare groover, suprisingly disco, for the talented musician, here with his version of this northern standard “Compared to What”.

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Purple Radio mix

February 15, 2009

Hi everyone, here’s a mix I put together last night for the lovely people at Purple Radio – well worth a visit, tuning in and saying hello on the forum…
Tracklisting:

Time and Space Machine – Buffalo Roam
Peter Visti – Balearic Love
Dolle Jolle – Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje Mix)
Hot Toddy – new unreleased CDR
Next Evidence – Hard [...]

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Vince Aletti – The Disco Files by DJHistory

February 10, 2009

For the past year the busy & talented folks at djhistory have been working on a bunch of books that are to be published under the DJhistory.com name and they’ve almost completed the first one.
Here’s a short summary about the publication from Bill Brewster – “Initially inspired by the artist and curator Matthew Higgs at [...]

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Stevie Wonder – Black Man

January 20, 2009

Things have been a little busy of late for everybody at the Love Unlimited, so with that in mind here we have a 3 in 1 post to mark the 50th Anniversary of Motown Records, the recent Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of Barack Obama, who will make history today when he is [...]

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Carol Williams – Can’t Get Away From Your Love

January 18, 2009

The Special Club “Dub” Mix of Can’t Get Away (From Your Love) by Carol Williams and re-mixed by Ray “Pinky” Velazquez & to say thanks to DJ’s in NYC…the recording contains a personal message of thanks to them:
“Hi, this is Carol Williams, and I’d like to thank all of the New
York metro DJs for supporting [...]

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Rahaan – Blue Line – exclusive mix

January 9, 2009
blue line chicago

Disco Love & thanks to The Chuck Brothers hook-up for another Love Unlimited exclusive, this time from Rahaan (Chicago).

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Le Disco: Tele Music Remixed

November 19, 2008

Courtesy of the lovely people at djhistory they have recently released a whole album of never-heard original disco, lovingly retouched by some of the world’s finest remixers.
In 1979 the cream of French and British session musicians gathered to record some of the most scorching disco music ever committed to vinyl. As a series of ‘Disco [...]

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Jungle Brothers – Doing Our Own Dang

October 18, 2008

From 1989 “Doing Our Own Dang” is a slice of disco sampling Hip-Hop thats been on revival pressure of late at love unlimited…with the Jungle Brothers and a who’s who from the native tongues, a coalition of New York Rappers, including De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah and Monie Love from the UK [...]

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Norman Whitfield RIP

September 17, 2008

Sadly soul colossus Norman Whitfield has passed away this week. Well known for his work with Motown label during the 1960’s and credited as being one of the creators of the Motown Sound, he was also instrumental in the sub-genre of psychedelic soul.
A truly talented writer and producer responsible for some amazing music from [...]

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Bill Brewster’s Limited Love Mix

September 4, 2008

It’s been a bit quiet on the love unlimited of late, so it’s great to kick things off again with an exclusive mix from DJ Historian Bill Brewster.
Bill runs the DJHistory website with partner-in-crime Frank Broughton. They also run regular parties under the Low Life banner and the new Secret Weapons (monthly at the Big [...]

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ISAAC HAYES – Shaft (rare disco version)

August 12, 2008

RIP Isaac Hayes.

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Stargard – What You Waitin For

August 1, 2008

Always more disco for your dollar at the love unlimited…
Stargard hailed from Los Angeles, California and are probably best known for their disco hit ‘Wear it Out’, for your listening pleasure we feature this little cowbell groover ‘What You Waitin For’ released in 1978 on MCA records.
Some well known samples for the spotters and relatively [...]

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Disco Patrick – exclusive mix

July 10, 2008

Earlier we wrote about Disco Patrick’s Bootleg Guide to Disco Acetates, Funk, Rap and Disco Medleys – a  book that’s the result of over 25 years of personal research, cataloguing DP’s own record collection and the collections of several DJ’s and record producers from all over the globe.  The book references the mysteries of disco [...]

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Latin Polar Bear Disco

July 8, 2008

Here we have a guest mix from ‘professor’ Eddy, a regular to the site who has a show called ‘Soul Searching’ on Laid Back Radio and a Slow Disco 2 podcast.  The mix is called Latin Polar Bear Disco.  The prof explains:
The idea behind the mix was to put together some refreshing tunes for sweaty [...]

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Kikrokos – Life is a Jungle

July 3, 2008

This LP has been blogged brilliantly elsewhere (check out the write up at “Studio!”) so we’ll keep it short, and leave you to check out ‘Life is a Jungle’ pitched down to minus 8. It’s truly anthemic, and contains an amazing break down. Oh, and the cover is bwaaaaassss..

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An interview with Claudio Simonetti

June 18, 2008

Born into a musical dynasty, Claudio Simonetti’s career was dramatically launched when his young band Goblin were chosen to produce the soundtrack for Italian horror auteur Dario Argento’s latest flick.  Profondo Rosso went on to sell three million copies and the band also scored his next soundtrack, the classic Suspiria. After discovering disco, Simonetti made [...]

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Cosmic Dancing with Daniel Donnachie

June 7, 2008

Daniel Donnachie, former resident of The Bomb, Chairman of the Cosmic Committee and compiler of regular Cosmic Dancing mixes via his Facebook group (join up here) is starting a new residency at Moog in Nottingham (which continues tonight with a BBQ on the roof terrace).  Here is a recording of the opening night which delivers [...]

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afrodesia – IntroDiscoMental Mix

May 2, 2008

The Chuck Brothers just keep on coming up with the disco-goods, once again the love unlimited are delighted to be able to feature another hot & exclusive mix by afrodesia
Check out afrodesia’ & Rahaan’ previous mix offerings in earlier posts. This latest afrodesia excursion is the IntroDiscoMental Mix – The Return of Disco K
That’s the [...]

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afrodesia – IntroDiscoMental Mix

May 2, 2008

The Chuck Brothers just keep on coming up with the disco-goods, once again the love unlimited are delighted to be able to feature another hot & exclusive mix by afrodesia
Check out afrodesia’ & Rahaan’ previous mix offerings in earlier posts. This latest afrodesia excursion is the IntroDiscoMental Mix – The Return of Disco K
That’s the [...]

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Sarr Band – Magic Mandrake

April 30, 2008

Underground disco 45, “Magic Mandrake” from the Sarr Band, released on the Calendar label in the UK as both a 7″ & 12″ single with Double Action as a Double A side and also on the Canadian Unidisc record label.
Big with the Love Unlimited & many DJ’s in the UK & US (it was re-edited [...]

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Salsoul Orchestra – Nice N Naasty

April 26, 2008

In the same vein as MFSB for ‘Philadelphia International’, the Salsoul Orchestra where the in-house band for ‘Salsoul Records’. Vince Montana wrote, conducted and produced many of the orchestra’s releases.
The Orchestra had many arrangers & whole instrument sections contributing to their distinctive sound, with sessions attended by up to 50 members on a regular basis.
Plenty [...]

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Better Days Mix by JJ from Six Million Steps

April 15, 2008

Disco Lover & member of Six Million Steps JJ takes his place in the love unlimited archive with a tight mix of disco, boogie & a few house classics. This mix sits nicely alongside JJ’s regular smoking sessions podcasts, you can sign-up for JJ’s podcast at the 6MS site.
If you have a passing interest in [...]

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